Winding apparatus.



PATENTED A UG. 1, 1905 I A G.W.HUBBARD.

WINDING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29. 1903.

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No. 795,980. PATENTBD no.1, 1905.

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WINDING APPARATUS. APPiIGA'IIOH TILED JUN}: 29, 1903.

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: i Q V CHARLES W. HUBBARD, OF, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.-

3 WINDING APPARATUS.

Application filed June 29, 1903. Serial 1%- 163,483.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. HUBBARD, of Boston, county of Suffolk,State of Massachusetts, have invented an lmprovement in WindingApparatus, of which the following description, in connection with theaccompanylng drawlngs, 1s a speclficatlon, like letters. on the drawingsrepresenting like parts.

My invention is an improvement in winding mechanism, and in theform'herein shown and described might be termed a diskspinmug device,one of my leading objects being to. provide means which will enable mereadily to handle large masses of yarn or material, thereby greatlyfacilitating the subsequent handling and use of the yarn and economizingin time, labor, and otherexpense at all points where the yarn has to behandled.

To make my object clearly understood, it

-'may be well to direct attention to the great labor, delay, and expenseordinarily attending certain steps in 'the manufacture of textiles .as,for instance, on the present roving-frames the bobbins carry about twopounds 0f yarnand have to'be changed every halfrhour, whereas it is myObJBCi) to make it feasible to usea thread mass of, say, thirty pounds,which will last about seven hours, and so on the spinning-frame wherenow a two-pound ro've-bobbin is used I substitute at least thirtypounds, lasting four days, and likewise .instead of the" customary smallspinningbobbin (taking about one-third pound-of, yarn as it comes fromthe frame) I' will substitute; at least ten pounds, thereby requiringdofiing only one thirtieth as often as before. This great, saving oflabor, expense, and time is eifected by providing compact and preferablyself-sustaining thread masses oflarge' size,from which the threadunwinds in transverse layers from one end only,-said thread masses beingpreferably from three to five feet, less or more,

in length, or, if desired, having the same capacity by reason ofncreased diameter. 1 ac- I complish this in the preferred embodiment ofmy-invention herein set forth, in which I have chosen to illustrate thesame in connection with spinning by means of a revolving flier withinwhich'the thread mass rotates, said thread mass having superimposedthereon cooperating members which. cause the thread to be, laid ineccentric loops or paths'differentiated from each other by an incrementor decrement sufficient topermit them to lie sub stantially flat, thelayers thereof building up in succession with such compactness as maySpecification of Letters Yatent.

partly in section.

Patented Aug. 1, 1905.

be desired. By thus having the loops of thread laid in an eccentric'paththey overlap cachet-her, so as to give the entire thread mass a compact,stable, and {permanent structure.

Further details of my invention will be pointed out in the course of thefollowing description, reference being had to-the accompanying drawings,in which I have illustrated some of many possible embodiments of myinvention. 1 t

In the'drawings, Figure 1 represents in vertical transverse sectionaportlon of aspinnmgframe with my invention applied thereto. Fig.

2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is atop "plan view of the threadmass, or rather may be considered a d iagrammatlc view illustrating vthe-system or order of winding.- 'Fig. 4 is a fragmentarycross-sectionalview to show.in

better detail the thread-guide. Fig. 5 is a r central vertical sectionof another form of apparatus. Fig. 6 is a top plan view thereof,

details to be"ieferred to.

It will be understood that I have merely A undertaken to show sufficientdetails of a usual spinning-frame toenable my invention as appliedthereto to be readily understood.

" Mounted on a suitablebeam a in a journal-' bearing'a is a flier. ahaving a hollow shaft a depending therefrom and provided with abelt-pulley'dT" Within this hollow shaft a is a second hollow shaft at,secured in any suitable ,manner, as'b'y threads at, at itsupper end to asupport or plate a by means of a bushing a secured to said plate, saidhollow shaft a carrying a gear a at its lower endin mesh with a piniona", journaled in a pulley a, and also in mesh with a gear a, secured tothe pulley a, already mentioned. This gearing is housed for conveniencein the hollow belt-pulley a. The plate a is provided on its upper sidewith a frictional surface a), of felt or other proper substance, forstarting the thread mass m upon. Resting on the with, said spindle beingmounted in the sleeve or hollow shaft (5 and secured to the lowerbelt-pulley a. Said disk a has a radial slot a grooved to receive athread-guide a 'through which the thread 25 passes.

Resting loosely above the disk a is a throw-plate or cam-plate amounted'on the arms a of the flier and provided with acam-shape'dopening' (4 (shown clearly in Fig. 2) for permitting thethread to follow the movements freey of Figs. 7 and 8 aresectionalthis'result to the best advantage.

In the foregoing description of the mechanism I have described in detailthe-form of device which I prefer to employ when operating in connectionwith spinning; but it will be understood that I am not limited thereto,as many changes in form and arrangement maybe resorted to withoutdeparting from my invention.

' In operation the yarn Z passes down from the usual drawing-rollsthrough a guide-hole k to the thread-guide a and is caused thereby tofollow the contour of the heart-shaped cam while being laid on thethread mass while reciprocating in the slot a in the disk a? Thedegreeof twist and the rapidity of winding del 'pend upon the relativespeed at which the pulleys a" and a are rotated. To make this clear, letus suppose that the pulley a is stationary and the pulley a rotary. Therotary movement ot'said pulley a is imparted directly to the spindle(Rand therefore to the thread-laying member (1 This rotary movement ofthe pulley a also carries the gear at around the gear 4-,wh1ch We haveassumed is stationary.

,Since the gears a and a have a dilferent number of teeth, it willfollow that such r0 tation of the pulley a will cause the gear co toeither fall behind or advance slightly ahead of a. according to therelative number of teeth in said gears. ihe gear a", it

will be remembered, is fast to the shaft a If in-.

and operates the thread-support a stead of the pulley a being stationarysaid pulley is revolved either in the same direc.

tion as the pulley a l, but at a'difi'erent speed or in the oppositedirection, it will follow that the cam-plate a and the disk a will berotated at different relative speeds. In any event, however, thethread-support d is caused to either fall slightly behind or advanceslightly ahead of the cam-plate (0 because of the construction andarrangement of gears a n" a. Any suitable means may be employed fordriving the pulleys a and at so that the relative speed at which saidpulleys are driven may be governed as desired. By means of thisconstruction and this form of gearing I can determine with the utmostnicety the laying of the loops or successive strands of thread or yarn.

In practice I preferto rotate both the pulleys a. and fa in the, samedirection, but at different speeds, although it is within my inventionto rotate them in either direction with any relative speed according tothe results desired.

As shown in Figs. 1 to 4, the thread mass rotates. (for the purpose ofgetting the twist desired,) it being necessary so far as the merewinding is concerned, however, only that there shall be proper relativemovement between the thread mass and the cam-plate and slotted disk, thecam-plate constituting a path-controller for the thread and the disk aor cam-plate b and cooperating rotator or depending flier 6 move, theformer havinga heart-shaped cam b and-being retained by brackets 6",similar brackets 6 holding the flier. Said cam-plate and flier areprovided with teeth in mesh with gears b b, fastened on a shaft 1),driven by a belt 6 one of said gears having a different numberof teethfrom the other, so as to give a corresponding increment or decrement ofmovement of the thread mass with relation to the path-controller 7) forcausing the successive loops of thread to be laid adjacent but notdirectly on top of each other, as already explained. A thread-guide orbutton 6 travels in the slot 6 having guide-ribs b at its opposite sidesfittinggrooves I), formed in the windingplate said button at its'innerend having a thread-passage I) and at its outer end having a stud or pin6, traveling in a groove 6" whereby it is reciprocated as required. Ththread mass is built upon a support If, mounted to turn on a post 6"and. normally held upwardly by any suitable means, as by weighted cords6 passing over pulleys I), the support I) being caused to move with therotator orfflier b 'by engaging vertical ribs or arms 6 extendinglongitudinally theueof. As herein shown, I provide three distinctmovements in Fig. 1-the flier a and camplate at havingone speed ofrotation from the belt-pulley a, and the supporting-plate a and'presserplate or winder 10 havingitwo other movements, respectivelyprovided, by the gear a and the pulley (13 while in Fig. 5 the samerelative three movements are provided by having the rotator or flier 71move at a different speed of rotation from that of the cam-plateorpath-controller Z), the winding plate or presser being stationary.

The relative speeds ot the thread mass and the presser-plate determinethe speed of winding, and the relative movement between the cam-plateand the presser-plate determines c the progressive laying of the loops,while in part rotates at a constant speed when wind? ing. or, in otherwords, there is always a constant ratio between the speed of the windingmember and that of the thread mass, as distinguished from a variableratio. It will be understood, of course, that the speed of the variousparts may be changed for either fast or slow winding and to give more orless twist to the threads; but the relative speed of the winding memberand the thread mass when the pulleys are rota ting in the same directionis a constant quantity irrespective of the variations in the speed ofeither of said parts, this resulting from the construction and operationof the gears a a, and a, as willbe obvious.

4 As the-disk a), Fig. 1, moves around on the upper endtof the threadmass or inFig'. 5 as thethread mass moves around beneath the plate I)the thread is pulled down witha hard pressure and with 'unvaryingprecision, due to the pressure of thedisk orplate and thread guide asthe thread passes from the lower end or edge of said guide, and as thedisk orpla'te bears constantly on the thread mass there is no chance forthe strands to'change position when once'laid. v

My invention has a wide field of usefulness and, as already intimated, Ido not intend to restrict the same in all my claims to spinning,inasmuch as simply by omitting the twisting or spinning feature it is ofgreat advantage in winding generally, or wherever it is desired toprepare a wound thread mass, as explained further in myconcurrentapplication, Serial No. 163,619, where I have shown another embodimentof my present invention. 1 i

I As the traverse-is simply along 'a'radial line, such as the slot a or6 instead of being lengthwise of the spindle, it follows th'atithere' ispractically very little limit to the length of the thread mass beingwound, and instead of being limited to a few pounds Weight it mayreadily be ofsuch large size as may be desired.

The heart-shaped loops, as shown inFig. 3, are preferred because I havefound that by this means I am enabled to, pack the thread mass compactlyand satisfactorily, bringing the longer curvedsides of each loopapproxtmately parallel to the corresponding portions ofthe preceding loops.

' As the thread mass makes a complete rota:

tion, thereby permitting the laying of approximately one loop, thepath-controller or cam-plate has traveled slightly more than onerotation, (or slightly less, as the case may be,) the thread beingthereby laid correspondingly ahead of its preceding'path', and thisprocess continues as the thread massand cam continue to rotate, one loopbeing formed each time and laid progressively, each loop having a seriesof successive points at different radial I distances from the center ofthe axis and each layer, includingapluralityof loops, extending acrossthe thread mass.

I prefer. to have the loops extend around the center or axis of thethread mass, as shown in Fig. 3, this serving to give the greateststability and firmness of position;" but it will be understood that I donot limit myselfthereto,

and also it will be understood that by the term loop 1 mean aback-and-forth or out andreturn laying of the thread. I

My in vention provides a thread inass which affords a great advantageovert-the system heretofore employed in certain kinds of manufacture-as,for instance, in carpetmills,

where itis now customary to take the yarn from the spinning-frame insix-ounce bobbins and put it on ten-pound spools,-&c., instead of whichthe desired ten-pound mass of thread may beprovided directly by mymachine, and therefore go from thespinning-frame directly to the loomwithout the delay and expense of reeling and spooling.

If the thread mass wound is very large, it is slipped otf from thespindle, together with the upper plates and supporting-plate, whichretain it until otherwise disposed of'by. suitable means; but if it isnot sufliciently large to require this it will not be necessary todisturb the base-plate.

1 I do not herein claim all-the features of the invention shown, as someof them are also shown and claimed 1n my concurrent applicationaforesaid, and also it will be noted that I claim herein genericallyvarious of thefea- I tures of invention which are common to the threemechanical embodiments contained in this and the aforesaid concurrentapplication.. Having described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a machine of the kinddescribed, a winding member for winding athread mass under pressure: in layers extending trans-' versely of theaxis of said thread mass, and

means for rotating said thread mass and said winding member at differentspeeds which have a constant ratio. I

2. In a machine ofthe kind described,winding mechanism including meansfor delivering under pressure a continuous thread'for building up athread mass, means for; traversing said delivery means transverselyofthe axis of the thread mass, and means for rotating the thread mass at aconstantspeed. f

3. Ina machine of the kind described,

ing member for winding a thread mass under pressure in layers extendingtransverselyof the axis Of'tll thread mass, and mechanism for rotatingsaid'thread mass andlsaidwindling member, said mechanism including meansfor maintaining a constant relativespeed between said winding n emberand stud; thread portfor the thread mass, aslotted plate forengaging thebuilding end of the thread mass, ieans for relatively moving the. threadmass and said slotted plate, a cam-plate rotating about the axis of thethread mass, and coo per' 'ating with said slotted piate for deliveringthe thread along the slot of thelatter and means to rotate saidcam-plate.

5. In amachin'e of thekindoescribed, a support for the thread mass, aslotted plate for engaging the building end of the thread mass, meansfor relatively moving said plate and thread mass, and a cam-plate havingthe same .axis'as the thread'mass, and also having a heart-shaped camcooperating with said sl0t' ted plate for delivering the threadalongithe :slot of the latter.

6; In amachine of the kind described,a winding member engaging thethread mass at the point of delivery of the thread thereto, a cam- Iplate controlling the path of delivery of said thread. and means torotate said cam-plate and Winding member at different speeds.

7. in a machine of the kind descr1bed,a winding member engaging thethread mass at the point of delivery of the thread thereto, a camplatecontrolling the path of delivery of said thread, and means to rotatesaidcam-plate,

7 said winding member, and said thread mass,

flier-arms for positively rotating one of said devices, and a windingmember for engaging the Winding end of the thread mass and laying thethread thereon.

10. in a machine of the kind described,'a sup port for the thread mass,a flier having arms adapted to rotate about said support, a windingmember bearing on the winding end of said thread mass, and a cam-platecontrolling the path of the thread wound by said winding member, saidcam-plate being rotated by said arms.

11. in a machine of the kind described, a flier having flier-armsextending therefrom parallel to the axis, a thread mass support, awinding member mounted coaxially of said flier,- and a cam-plate carriedby said arms and movable freely along the same, said winding membei:engaging the building end of the thread and moving upwardly therewith.

12. In a machine of the kind described, a central spindle, holiow shaftsurrounding the same, a thread mass support rotated by said shaft, awinding member for engaging the building end of the thread mass, saidmember being rotated by said spindle, and means for moving the threadradially of said windingmember as the latter rotates.

13. In a machinebf the kind described, a central spindle, a thread-masssupport, a winding member and a cam-plate coaxial of said spindle, andmeans for giving different speeds of rotation to said thread-s11pportand said cam-plate.

14. In a machine of the kind described, a central spindle, a thread-masssupport, a'winding member, and a cam-plate coaxial of said spindle, andmeans for giving to each of said last three mentioned devices separaterelative movements.

15. In almaehine of the kind described, a.

flier, means for supporting the thread mass while being wound, mechanismfordcpositing the thread upon said thread mass, means. for rotating saidflier, means for rotating said supporting means at a speed differentfrom the flier, and means for operating said depositing mechanism at adifferent speed from that of the said other two mechanisms.

16. in a machine of the kind described, a flier, means coaxial thereoffor su 'iporting a thread mass being wound, tln'cad-depositing means,and drivingmechanisms connected together for operating the aforesaidthree different mechanisms at relatively different speeds.

17. In a machine of the kind described, a support for the thread mass, awinding member engaging the winding end thereof and provided with a slothaving longitudinal ways, a thread-guide held to move in said ways, anda cam-plate provided with means engaging said thread-guide and movingthe same for controlling the path of delivery of the thread to saidthread mass.

18. in a machine of the kind described, a flier, a thread-supportindependent of said flier, a winding meinbcr, a cam-plate, and operatingmechanism therefor.

19., in a machine of. the kind described, a

flier, a thread-support independent of said flier, a winding member, acam-plate, said flier having arms for rotating said cam-plate, and meansfor rotating. said thread-support.

20. In a machine of ahe kind described, a support for the thread mass,it spindle around which the thread mass is builtup, and a winding memberrotated by said spindle for oper ating on one end of the thread mass.

2 1. In a machine of the kind described, a support for the thread mass,a spindle around which the thread mass is built up, and a winding memberrotated by said spindle for operatingon one end of the thread mass, saidwinding member being freely movable longitudinally of but non-rotatableon said spindle.

22. in a machine of the kind described, a support for the thread mass, aspindle around which the thread mass is built up, and a windguide"795,980 a f W H5 ing member rotated by said spindle for operating' onone end of the thread mass,- and pro- ,vided with a radial slot,- athread-guide in said slot, and means for traversing saidthread- 23.;Inamachineof the kind described, ,a

suppqrt for the thread mass, a winding memher, and a cam-plateccfiperatingwith the lat- 1 tel, said cam-plate having a heart-shapedcam located ecce'ntr'icallyvof said winding member for .cfiiitrolli'ng."the path of vdelivery of the thread thereto said thread mass,windingmem:

ber and cam-plate havingthe same axis.

7 24, Ina machine of the'k-indidescribedra I pinion and having adifferent number of teeth from said first mentioned gear, and means forpositively driving said second gear.

In testimonywhereofl have signed my name to this specification in thepresence cf two subscribing witnesses. i

CHARLES W. HUBBARD. Witnesses: i Q

. GEO. HI MAXWELL,

ETHEL TA R.

